Downtown to Techtown

In the last year, faculty and students undertook comprehensive visioning and strategic planning projects for two important areas of Detroit providing valuable resources for both public and private entities involved in the revitalization of Detroit's Downtown [page 6]

Global Place: Practice, Politics and the Polis
Provocations on the Centennial Conference

By Robert Fishman, Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning [page 9]

Global Place and Market Realism

At the beginning of the winter semester and midway through its centennial year, the college hosted luminaries from around the world to ask questions, such as what are the responsibilities of architecture and planning in the global era? What can architecture and planning contribute that no other discipline can toward the humanizing of a global society and its built environment? Here one of the guest participants reflects on the proceedings.
By Liane Lefaivre, professor and chair of history and theory of architecture, University of Applied Art, Austria
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Learning the Magical and Universal Language

"Lecture number one in Basic Drawing always begins by telling my students that they are in the best place they could possibly be. Each one of you is on a precipice, I say to them, poised to learn the magical and universal language of drawing. And possibly, you can even develop ways to extend your life, by conditioning reflexes which lead to better decisions, better driving, even to being better lovers."

By Melissa Harris, Associate Professor of Architecture
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